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Patented April 23, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that 1, WARREN A. SIMONDS, of Boston, in the county of Sutfolk, and-State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Vaporizer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

In vaporizing a fluid by the passage of air or other gaseous fluid over its surface, it is important to expose the iluid to be vaporized in shallow pans or vats, and to have the vaporizing agent in contact with as much as possible of the fluid to be vaporized, while at the same time the vaporized portion may be removed rapidly.

This is particularly desirable in what are called the carbonizers of portable gas machines, or in apparatus for charging air with disinfecting agents of afluid character, or in any analogous vaporization. My design has been to provide an apparatus for this purpose which shall be simple in construction, easy of repair, and which, while compact, shall still aiiord great length and amount of exposure of the fluid to be vaporized to the vaporizing fluid. I accomplish this by dividing a cylindrical vessel horizontally into numerous chambers,-by means of flat disks extending entirely across the cylinder, subdividing these chambers into cells, by means of perpendicular partial partitions reaching nearly across the cylinder, so as to compel a traverse of the vaporizing fluid around said partial partitions, connecting the cells above the disk with those below by U tubes passing through the walls of the cylinder around said horizontal disks, the said U tubes being independently connected outside with the sections or subdivisions of the cylinder. These tubes I prefer should pass from the upper left-hand cell to the lower right-hand cell, or from the upper right-hand cell to the lower left-hand cell, uniformly from top to bottom, so that the vaporizing agent shall move in a sort of spiral, but it is obvious they can be arranged from right cell to right cell, and left cell to left cell alternately, or evcn capricionsly, care being taken only that the tube connecting a cell on either hand above the disk with another below the disk shall be the only tube entering said cell, so that the vaporizing fluid may be forced to traverse the entire surface above each disk of the fluid to be vaporized, before it is delivered to pass over the fluid in the cells above or below. In the drawings- Figure 1 is an elevation, with the disks and partitions dotted through; and

Figure 2 is a plan of one of the chambers.

Like letters indicate like parts in both figures.

A is a cylinder of sheet metal, furnished at the top with an opening, Z, to pour in the fluid to be vaporized, and said opening-is fitted with an air-tight screw to close it when the chambers are filled. A cock, 0, through which to draw of? the superfluous fluid poured in, is arranged near the bottom of the cylinder. Pipes are attached at (Z and 0, through either of which the evaporating fluid may be forced or drawn to emerge at the other. The cylinder A is divided into chambers by disksf, and these chambers are subdivided into cells by partial partitionsg. U tubes 72, about half way between the disks, passing through'the side of the cylinder, and independently connected on the outside, join a cell above each disk with a cell below it, and the alternate cell above the disk with a cell in the chamber above it, except in the upper and lower chambers, which are opened to the exterior for ingress or egress as the case may be. In filling this apparatus with the fluid to be vaporized, it is only necessary to pour it through the hole 11, and open cock c, when it will overflow from one cell to another through tubes h, and when at last each cell is full, will run off through cook a, which must then be closed. Air or other vaporizing fluid, such as gas, is forced in at tube cl or e, passes overthe surface of the fluid in both cells ofjeach chamber, thus getting twice the travel it would without the partial partitions, and is then transmitted through tube It to the next chamber, and so on till finally discharged, saturated with vapor, at tube 0 or cl.

1 am aware that many inventions have been brought before the Patent Ofiice embodying some features of this; but I believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The arrangement within the vaporizing vessel of complete disks f, and partial partitions y, when combined with tubes 7:, connecting the respective cells of each chamber alternately with a cell of the chamber above, and a cell of the chamber below, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. I claim connecting the cells on diii'erent sides of the same disk by independent U tubes exterior to the cylinder adjusted, arranged, applied, and operating substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of February, A. D. 1867.

WARREN A. SIMONDS.

Witnesses:

Tuos. W11. CLARKE, E. A. RAYMOND. 

